I ask a lot of questions.' 'I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open.

and I began putting more work into environmental history.' 'I personally am not conscious of my accent.' 'I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.' 'I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.' 'Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.' 'I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.' 'Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.' 'Federal elections happen every two years in this country. It's, what, a few months in Iraq.' 'Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.' 'Australia is the most isolated continent.' 'Biology is the science.

A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion. 'AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues.

Author jared diamond